It was a penny to see a play by Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre in London. Upon entering the theatre, the public would place a penny in a box by the door - this gave rise to the term "Box Office"
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This question could have a lot of answers depending on 1) When you are talking about, 2) What theatre you are talking about, and 3) What kind of seats you are talking about.
Theatres during Shakespeare's lifetime at which his plays were performed included the Globe, with admission prices of one, two or three pence depending on the seat, and the more exclusive and expensive Blackfriars with admission of 6p and up.
Tickets at the Modern Globe in London run from five pounds for a groundling ticket to over thirty-seven pounds in the stalls.
It depended on the theatre. The cheapest tickets for the Globe were for standees and cost one penny. If you wanted to sit you had to pay tuppence or thruppence. Seats at the Blackfriars were much more exclusive; if you wanted to watch a Shakespeare play there, the cheapest seat would cost sixpence.
Depending on the theatre and whether you wanted to sit or stand it could cost as little as a penny and as much as sixpence. It cost around about a hundred dollars in nowadays American money.
Ticket prices for all Elizabethan plays in the outdoor theatres were the same no matter who the playwright was: one penny in the pit, two in the stalls and three above the stage.
However, ticket prices at the indoor theatres like the Blackfriars, where Shakespeare's plays among others were performed, were considerably higher, sometimes costing sixpence a seat. This was because the theatre could only seat a smaller audience so they needed to jack the prices.
It depended on what kind of seat you wanted. If you wanted a seat, it cost two pennies (twopence). If you wanted a cushion, it cost fourpence. If you wanted to sit in the Lord's room, which contained the best seat in the house, it cost sixpence. If, however, you were too poor to afford a seat, you could stand in front of the stage. That cost onepence.
It depends on when you are talking about, what seat you wanted and at what theatre. To get into the Globe in the early seventeenth century cost one to three pence, depending on whether you wanted a seat or not. The Blackfriars, at about the same time, was more expensive, and might cost you sixpence. David Garrick's Celebration of the bicentenary of Shakespeare's birth in 1769 sold tickets for one guinea as did the tercentenary performances of 1863. To attend a performance by Henry Irving at the Lyceum in 1896 would cost you one shilling for the gallery seats, 2s. 6d. for the seats on the floor and lower floor, 4s for the upper circle, 7s for the dress circle, 10s. 6d. for the stalls and two to four guineas for a private box.
In the three hundred years between the opening of the first Globe and Irving's production, the cost of the cheapest seat increased by only twelve times ( a shilling was worth 12 pence). In the ensuing hundred years since the cost of the cheapest seat in the new Shakespeare's Globe Theatre is about a hundred times the cost of the cheapest seat at the Lyceum.
It depends when and where. But if you mean at an outdoor theatre while Shakespeare was acting, the admission was one penny for standing room, two pence for a seat on the side and an extra penny if you wanted a cushion.
In order to see Shakespeare's plays in the Globe Theatre, patrons would pay one penny. While watching, they would stand in the yard, and most of the guests were richer than average.
A penny or more depending on where or whether you wanted to sit, and on what theatre you were watching the play at.
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It would cost anything around 90 - 80 cents.
It depends which theatre the play is playing in, and which production it is. Clearly you'll pay more to see Sir Ian McKellen play King Lear than Mort the Butcher in the local amateur company.
It cost one penny to wach a play form "the pit" while standing. It would cost several more pennys to watch while sitting in one of the three galleries. also it would cost a 6 pence to half a crown to sit in a blackfriars seat. the people who stood in "the pit" or "the yard" were often known as groundlings.
Everyone, many people could go. The royals, however, did not. If royalty wanted to see a play, they had the actors come to them.
A penny
It would cost anything around 90 - 80 cents.
It depends which theatre the play is playing in, and which production it is. Clearly you'll pay more to see Sir Ian McKellen play King Lear than Mort the Butcher in the local amateur company.
It depends entirely on where you go to see it performed.
Globe audience's paid one penny
Online, at least some of them. Others in Video Stores and Libraries. You should know that "film adaptation of Shakespeare" includes a broad variety of things, including: 1. A filmed performance of a Shakespeare play 2. A film based on a stage production of a Shakespeare play. 3. A film whose screenplay is essentially the same as a Shakespeare play. 4. A film whose plot is very similar to a Shakesepare play 5. A film which has one or two similarities to a Shakespeare play. 6. A film which has character names similar to those in a Shakespeare play. 7. A film influenced by a phrase from a Shakespeare play. 8. A film of a ballet based on the plot of a Shakespeare play. 9. A film of an opera based on the plot of a Shakespeare play. See the related link for the thousand-plus films which fall into one or other of these categories.
Whether you have to travel to see a play depends how far you live from the theatre it is playing at, not on what play it is.
It cost one penny to wach a play form "the pit" while standing. It would cost several more pennys to watch while sitting in one of the three galleries. also it would cost a 6 pence to half a crown to sit in a blackfriars seat. the people who stood in "the pit" or "the yard" were often known as groundlings.
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Everyone, many people could go. The royals, however, did not. If royalty wanted to see a play, they had the actors come to them.
There is a "play within a play" in Hamlet, called The Murder of Gonzago, it is often confused by The Mousetrap, but if you see the words The Mousetrap it will actually be The Murder of Gonzago
It's called Shakespeare's Globe, and it was built in 1997 on the south bank of the Thames not far where the Globe of Shakespeare's day stood. It is a spectacular facility to see a play in. See the attached link.